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Title: Western Sahara


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Western Sahara
  • By
  • Martine Chenhall
  • Jill Constantine

2
Who ?
  • Special Representative of the
  • Secretary-General
  • Julian Harston (United Kingdom)
  • Force Commander Major
  • General Kurt Mosgaard
  • (Denmark)

3
Who? Continued
  • A total of 229 uniformed personal including
  • 28 troops
  • 6 police officers
  • 195 military observers
  • Supported by 100 international civilian personal
  • 137 local civilian staff
  • 24 United Nations Volunteers

4
Who? Continued
  • Some Countries that have supported the cause by
    contributing some of there military personal are
    Austria, Egypt, France, Poland, and Italy just to
    name a few. Over 26 have contributed there
    military personal.
  • Fatalities- 5 military personal, 1 police
    officer, 1 military observer, 2 international
    civilian personnel, and 5 local civilian
    personnel making a total of 14.

5
What is happening?
  • September 1991 Morocco and the Frente deployed
    POLISARIO and MINURSO to monitor the ceasefire
    and to organize referendums (ask questions and
    allow the people of Sahara to vote on it)
  • There is a referendum happening in Western Sahara
    that is causing the people to choose between
    independence and integration with Morocco.
  • Now the UN is trying to help the people of the
    territory (Western Sahara) to decide on
    territorys future status.
  • Before the UN stepped in to help this conflict it
    had been happening for 30 years, and that
    includes 16 years of war.
  • MINURSO

6
Where is all of this happening?
  • The location if this event is in the Western
    Sahara desert (use to be a Spanish colony).
  • Western Sahara is a territory on the west coast
    of the continent of Africa beside Morocco,
    Mauritania and Algeria. Morocco and Mauritania
    both own for territory in the desert.
  • The main headquarters for this event is Laayoune,
    Western Sahara.

7
Map of Western Sahara
8
When?
  • 29th of April in 1991 to present is when the
    referendum started.
  • A 30 years if conflict
  • A 16 year war

9
Why is this happening???
  • The reason why this referendum is happening is
    because morocco wants the land that they claim
    as there's and wants it for there own and the
    people of Western Sahara want to decide on there
    own future.

10
Random Facts
The red line is the berm wall
  • During the 16 years of war
  • Morocco Built a sand wall
  • in Western Sahara called
  • the berm. It is 2000 km long and is still
    there today. Both Morocco and Frente POLISARIO.

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Bibliography
  • http//www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/minurso/inde
    x.html
  • http//www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/minurso/MINU
    RSO.pdf
  • http//www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/minurso.htm
  • http//www.minurso.unlb.org/
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